Patrick Stroud ’14 (left), Sebastian Garren ’14 (center), and Adam Barnes ’14 (right) all received Fulbright Fellowships this year.
PATRICK BRYANT ‘16 | STAFF
WRITER • After many years of not having

a Wabash College student represented in
the Fulbright scholars program, the College
has announced in the past few months
three students, Adam Barnes ’14, Sebastian
Garren ’14, and Patrick Stroud ’14, were
named fellows. According to the its website,
the Fulbright is “the flagship international
educational exchange program sponsored
by the U.S. government.” It is named after
the late-U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright.
Thanks in large part to the efforts of
Assistant Professor of Psychology Eric
Olofson, the chairman of the Graduate
Fellowships Committee, efforts, made by
the College to even a lopsided score with
DePauw on Fulbright acceptances, finally
appear to be paying dividends.
He’s been on the committee since the
2010-2011 school year. Olfoson said the
committee has changed to become a very
proactive committee from how it was back
in 2010.
“If any student comes to us saying [they]
want to apply for the Fulbright or [they]
want to apply for the Rhodes or [they] want

to apply for anything, we’ll spring into
action.’” Olofson said. “And, then, [the
committee] never met again.”
As the committee has developed, it has
gained support from the Schroeder Center
for Career Development, alumnus Art Howe
’82, and Director of Academic Support
Services Julia Rosenberg. Until this next
school year, the College was one of the few
to not have a dedicated position devoted to
researching and coordinating these types of
post-graduate fellowships.
“Going forward the news is that the Dean
has announced that [Library Acquisitions
Manager] Susan Albrecht will be taking over
as the half-time fellowships advisor and
she’s going to start this summer,” Olofson
said.
For Barnes, pursuing a biology and
Spanish double major, his opportunity
to participate in a nine-month English
Teaching Assistant program in Madrid will
give him a two-fold opportunity. First, it will
allow him to immerse himself in Spanish so
to attain fluency, but treating this program
as a gap year between attending medical
school, he said he will have the opportunity

to expose himself to the socialized healthcare system in Spain.
Barnes said in preparing his application,
he received a lot of help from Assistant
Professor of Political Science Alexandra
Hoerl. A member of the committee, she will
serve as chair when Olofson is on sabbatical
next school year.
“As my advisor she was sort of the one
that directed me,” Barnes said. “It was
never really on my radar and I never was
truly invested in the Fulbright, until last fall
I realized I was applying to the Rhodes for
the wrong reasons, and I would much more
enjoy the Fulbright” he said. “But it was
definitely through the help of Dr. Hoerl, who
pushed me in that direction. “
Most recently, Stroud was the third to be
named a Fulbright scholar, and will be in
a similar English Teaching Assistant program in Madrid. With the goal of attending
graduate school to become a Professor of
History, Stroud said his program would
allow him to work with programs like the
Global Classrooms Model UN Program.
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Carpenter resigned as the Little Giants’
head basketball coach Wednesday,
according to Director of Sports
Information and Sports Marketing Brent
Harris.
Carpenter, a 2000 graduate of Wabash
and former basketball player, served as
assistant basketball coach under Mac
Petty for four years before taking the
head coach position before the 20112012 season.
During Carpenter’s three seasons
as head coach, the basketball team
amassed a record of 35-42 (24-53 in the
NCAC) including an 8-17 mark this past
season. Carpenter’s first season was the
team’s best as they finished 18-8 and
fourth in the NCAC.
The College has a policy of not discussing personnel matters publicly.
Wabash College President Gregory
Hess did make a statement wishing
Carpenter the best of luck in the future.
“We are grateful for Coach
Carpenter’s seven years of service to his
alma mater as an assistant and head
basketball coach, and we wish him the
best of luck in his future endeavors,”
Hess said.

McChesney, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, presented an
idea meant to fix what he believes to
be a flawed form of American journalism on Wednesday night.
McChesney lamented that good
journalists have been reduced
into monetizing what they do in
an online age. He said this was
dangerous and it does not work.
McChesney said that the field of
journalism has been reduced to
what he called “the billionaire
option,” where journalists must rely
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HI-FIVES
FIVE THINGS WORTHY
OF A HI-FIVE THIS WEEK

WABASH DRINKS
RESPONSIBLY?

NEWS EDITOR
Jacob Burnett • jlburnet15@wabash.edu

On Oct. 20, 2012, CP Porter ’14 was involved
in a collision during a football game against
the College of Wooster. He suffered a serious
debilitating injury: a fractured and dislocated
hip, and it ended his season. He underwent
several surgeries and months of rehabilitation.
Against these odds, Porter returned to the
gridiron this past August, scoring in the first
game of the season. For his return, he earned
the Brady Sports Achievement Award that was
established by the Methodist Sports Medicine
Research and Education Foundation and is
sponsored by ATI Physical Therapy. He surely
is Some Little Giant.

The Little Giants won the Indiana DII Track
Championships last weekend. Not only did
they take the men’s title, they had the highest overall score — men and women points
combined. Of course, Wabash has some sort
of disadvantage in this category compared to
other schools. Surprise, we don’t have a female
track and field team.

INDY ELEVEN REPS LEW
WALLACE
The Indy Eleven, the new minor league soccer team in Indy is named after General Lew
Wallace’s Eleventh Infantry Division from the
Civil War. Their logo is even the statue that
is in downtown Crawfordsville outside of the
courthouse. I wonder if Lew would have been
into soccer.

SUNBURNS & SNOW FALL
Bright, red sunburns accompanied the beach
volleyball extravaganza that is Sets on the
Beach. The sun graced the time with its presence. However, Monday night into Tuesday
morning the campus experienced snow. On
this rare occasion, Wabash students that were
kissed by the sun got to walk in the snow. This
drastic weather change definitely was one for
the books.

END OF TAX SEASON
Tax season came to a close this past Tuesday.
The 2013 tax year was a busy year for the IRS
as they started accepting filings late due to the
government shut-down. According to New
York Times many paid tax preparers at firms
across the nation spoke with clients about the
potential impacts of the Affordable Care Act
on the 2014 tax year. Next year will be the first
year that non-exempt taxpayers will face a
penalty for being uninsured.

Associate Professor of Psychology Robert Horton displays some of the research he shared
with his class. Information is collected from students via a number of self-reporting surveys.
TYLER HARDCASTLE ‘15 | STAFF
WRITER • Each year undergraduate

institutions across the nation collect
information about student alcohol consumption. The self-reporting surveys
often aim to both educate students and
to inform administrators nationwide
as well as institution specific trends.
Though the surveys are accurate only
to the extent that students report the
truth, the information can be insightful
to a number of interested parties from
students, to teachers, to administrators.
“For a part of my abnormal psychology class we have a unit about substance abuse disorders, I just took the
chance to show them a little bit about
what the data suggest about substance
use at Wabash,” Associate Professor of
Psychology Robert Horton said.
Most Wabash students participate in Alcohol-Wise training before
Freshman year and then a month
later, the National Survey of Student
Engagement, and the Wabash National
Study of Liberal Arts Education.
Reviewing the collected information
allowed Horton’s class to make some
informal conclusions about Wabash’s
drinking culture.
“On another survey our students regularly report many fewer hours of partying than do men at comparable institutions,” Horton said. “They also report
many hours studying. The message
from the data probably is the notion
that we don’t party often, but when you
do it’s at an intense level.”
The class continued to discuss the
data based on their own interpretations:
“The way my class interpreted the data
was that we’re [Wabash students] not
drinking more frequently but we may
be binge drinking more,” Horton said.
Binge drinking is commonly defined by
the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism as about 5 drinks over
a two-hour period - though the number

differs for each individual.
Research on binge drinking conducted by Weitzman, Nelson, & Wechsler
in 2003 suggests a number of factors as
predictors associated with the onset of
binge drinking on campuses. Among
the factors associated are male and
white student population, parent’s use
of alcohol, and greek affiliation. Higher
diversity both racially and ethnically
tend to show decreased consumption
rates as do female and older student
body compositions.
Dean of Student Michael Raters
explains that drinking and drinking to
excess will always be an issue campuses
fight against. This is especially salient
for high-risk populations. Raters views
the administration’s first role as that
of educating. This includes recognizing how different kinds of alcohol can
impact individuals differently.
“It’s the drinking of the hard stuff,
kids who are getting hurt or dying from
drinking often have used hard alcohol,”
Raters said. Though a major part of the
administration’s aim is prevention alcohol-wise specifically works to this
end. The Dean of Students office works
to prepare for those situations when
consumption becomes dangerous.
According to Associate Dean of
Students William Oprisko campus
RAs and various fraternity officers go
through extensive training. The training
includes interpersonal skills and conflict resolution but also goes through
emergency situations. To that end the
participants meet with members of
the community police and fire departments. They also go through “scenarios” that involve unknown elements
to test the participants training. “The
whole purpose of this is to ‘get them to
understand what it feels like’ because
we cant give you a perfect experience,
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semester can be bittersweet as the
seniors prepare to scatter for life after
Wabash. John Decker ’14 looks forward to his future in Chicago, but in
the meantime, he is reflecting upon his
Wabash experience.
‘Athlete’ is one of the many words
one would come up with when meeting
Decker; consequently, he is not limited
by one sport. His freshman year consisted of a big change from his tennis
decision.
“I actually came here as a tennis
recruit, which is pretty interesting
considering I play rugby now and am
pretty into it,” Decker said. “But I was
really serious about tennis, and [Head
Tennis Coach Jason] Hutchison did a
really good job recruiting me here and
showing me all the benefits of Wabash.
I am really thankful for that, but with
tennis I became really burned out. So
when I played, it was only for a few
weeks my first semester of my freshman year. Then I decided it wasn’t for
me.”
Decker then progressed to lacrosse, a
sport he played both in middle school
and high school alike.
“I played lacrosse for my first two
years here,” Decker said. “[Then] I was
fortunate enough to study abroad in
New Zealand, so the semester before I

left I wanted to pick up rugby because I
thought that it would be kind of cool to
play down there and learn a few things
about the sport. It is such a big part
of their culture. It is everything down
there; it’s like American football and
our baseball combined.”
Decker’s time in New Zealand had a
big impact on him.
“I played quite a bit while I was
down there,” Decker continued. “I
played for a pretty good club team in
Auckland, New Zealand. [I] learned
about all kinds of stuff about rugby.
And I wanted to keep playing here. The
first semester this year, I wasn’t able to
play because I had a herniated disk in
my back that I actually got when I was
playing over seas. Over the semester,
I’ve been trying to be healthy and do
my best to keep active and keep the
team going.”
Decker uses his height to his advantage in rugby.
“I play lock, which is also known as
the second row,” Decker said. “It’s
usually the tallest guys on the team
and you’re responsible for pushing
the scrub. It’s kind of a gritty position,
nothing too flashy; [you] do a lot of the
dirty work.”
Any athlete knows that driving up
and down the court is futile without concentrating on what happens
in between; consequently, traveling

PHOTO BY - IAN BAUMGARDNER ‘14

Decker stands in front of Lambda Chi. While at Wabash Decker pursued a number of athletic interests but ultimately found his true passion in Rugby, he hopes to continue playing
on a club team when he moves to Chicago after graduation.
abroad is not foreign to Decker.
“Defining my Wabash experience,
I had never traveled anywhere before
I came here, and this was something I really wanted to do,” Decker
said. “I was fortunate enough to go
to Cuba with [Assistant Professor of
Political Science Ethan] Hollander and
[Associate Professor of Spanish and
Political Science Department Chair
Daniel] Rogers. That was a great time.
So when I first got here, I hadn’t even
been really out of Indiana much and I
got to go to New Zealand for a semester
and then spend some time in Cuba. It
makes me want to travel even more.”
Decker will be leaving Indiana after
graduation.
“I will be working in Chicago this
time next year,” said Decker. “And
for a long time, I thought I was going
to go back to New Zealand and work
down there. It goes to show how much
Wabash can change you. I came to
Wabash wanting to go to law school
and I actually went to Marine Corps
officer candidate school after my
sophomore year here. I’ve had a lot of
different experiences through Wabash
that I’m really thankful for.”
The liberal arts experience flourishes
in the development of the cosmopolitan student. As we know, us students
are exposed to many thoughts and
notions we would not have had otherwise. For Decker, this comes into the
form of poetry.
“A lot of people would not know
this about me, but I really like writing
poetry,” Decker stated. “I was in the
Wabash Review last year, not this year
unfortunately – I have not had the time

to really write as much as like. But
my interest was spurred after I took
Dr. Hudson’s Shakespeare class my
sophomore year. That really spurred
my interest in poetry and especially
Shakespeare. I don’t think a lot of people would know that about me. I really
like to write and being a writing center
tutor has really been a great experience
for me.”
While he has spent a lot of his life
with athletics, Decker also has a creative side.
“I really like writing a lot about
nature,” Decker continued. “I live really close to Lake Michigan, and I really
just think Lake Michigan is awesome. I
really enjoy just sitting out by the beach
and writing poetry about the waves or
just the sights and sounds.”
Coming full circle, Decker looks forward to his life after commencement.
“I will be working for a company
called Coyote Logistics and I’ll be a
national account manager,” Decker
said. “It’s an entry-level sales position
and I’ll be living around Lincoln Park,
which is near Wrigley Field. To me, it
is like the best opportunity: being in
Chicago, near downtown. I’ll be able to
keep playing rugby in a club up there.”

“I’ve had a lot of different experiences through
Wabash that I’m really
thankful for.”
DECKER
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“Rather than proposing specific research
that we will take abroad,” he said, “I will
serve as a cultural ambassador who promotes international exchange through language learning.”
Although Stroud said he credits the aforementioned faculty and staff for their help
and support in preparing his application, he
said advising and selecting programs were a
big part of what made his experience a positive one.
“Wabash College is reviving a commitment to introducing its students to fellowships like the Fulbright,” Stroud said via
email. “I feel that Wabash men definitely
have the talent and the passion to receive
prestigious fellowships and other opportunities to further their learning, but they often
don’t know where to start looking.”
Garren, who will be going to Turku,
Finland to research education pedagogy
and policy, said the assistance of Olofson
and the efforts of Julia Rosenberg in the writing center were invaluable in helping him
through the application process. He said
it was Olofson who helped him put “meat”
on his proposal and it was Rosenberg who
helped him organize and develop his personal statement.
“[Rosenberg] helped me through many
different drafts,” Garren said. “She was able
to identify points in my proposal and tell me
that needed to be expanded upon.”
As a component of his research grant in

Finland, Garren will earn a Master of Arts
degree in education. The program itself is
something Garren said has the markings of
“an extension of the liberal arts.” With that
in mind, Garren said that he had to elucidate how his Latin and philosophy degree
positioned him for success in a post-graduate program on education.
Garren advises that underclassmen
with aspirations of applying for a Fulbright
scholarship know their own strengths and
weaknesses.
“When you try to figure out what you
want to do after Wabash,” he said, “you
should identify your abilities and talents,
and find a place where you can bring them
to the next level.”
On a slightly different deadline schedule
than Barnes, Garren, and Stroud, Chet
Turnbeaugh ’14 is a finalist for the mtvU
award. If he receives this award, it would
mean the College has a Fulbright scholar
in all three categories this school year. The
smallest school to ever achieve this feat,
Olofson said, is Tufts University with an
enrollment of 5,000.
Olofson said another major help in
marketing these sorts of fellowships is the
idea that there are Wabash men that current students can look to and identify with.
Prior to this year, it had been since 2003
that a Wabash student had been awarded a
Fulbright fellowship.
“I know what a winning application looks
like, so that helps,” Olofson said. “Now, I can
utilize that information to help the next student that comes along.”

FROM DRINKS, P2
that can only happen in the moment,”
Oprisko said.
Junior Brock Smith, current president of the W.A.R. (Wabash Acts
Responsibly) council, recognizes the
risks that excessive drinking can pose to
students.
“I think that since Wabash students
drink less frequently, possibly due to
the academic rigor, they engage in more
binge drinking when they do in fact
drink,” Smith said.”The WAR Council
does not aim to eliminate alcohol on
campus, as you can imagine that would
be quite difficult. Instead, the W.A.R.
Council’s aim is to illuminate irresponsible behavior, such as excess drinking,
which can lead to blackouts and even
death.”
The W.A.R. council provides alternatives to alcohol at many college events
and at the last national act encouraged
students to continue to drink water.
Recently the W.A.R. council hosted
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeler
to speak on the recently passed lifeline
law.
“The Lifeline Law is a law that allows
someone who has been using drugs,
legally or illegally, to call the police
for someone in an emergency situation, like someone passed out without
a pulse, and (the person calling, and
others involved in helping) having complete immunity from legal dispute,”
Smith said.
Though the law has wide-reaching
implications it is often viewed in its
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impact on underage drinking. Professor
Horton and his class found several
potential trends in the data specifically
looking at freshman.
“They are slightly more likely than
men at other liberal arts colleges to say
that in an average week during their
senior year of high school they didn’t
drink alcohol at all, about 60 percent
will report that they did not engage in
binge drinking.”
Though that would not point to anything shocking or a growing problem it
does provide insight into our student
body and underage drinking.
“With RAs and fraternity presidents
we tell them that it is not responsible to
break the law. If the law says you have
to be 21 to drink, then it’s irresponsible
to drink alcohol under the age of 21.”
Oprisko said. “There’s a lot of autonomy and independence that both RAs
and fraternity officers have to confront
but they still have to confront and educate.”
Oprisko views that as part of the
honor code in action. Though the
school does not deal with underage
drinking via a judicial process, with a
hearing, automatic punishments, or set
fines there is a process of dealing with
underage drinking through the Dean of
Students office.
“Again, we’ll have our challenges
just like every other institution has its
challenges,” Raters said. “I know our
approach is working, but nothing is a
silver bullet.”

FROM JOURNALISM, P1
on billionaires to survive.
“It’s an absurd option,”
McChesney said. “The Framers [of
the Constitution] never, ever would
have considered that a legitimate
way of having journalism – that we
have to have billionaires subsidize
the news.”
So how do we solve the problem
of billionaire-dominated news?
McChesney believes the answer is
found in the fact that journalism is
a public good.
A public good is something that
society needs, but the market cannot provide for it sufficiently, so
governments have to get involved.
One of the more common examples
of a public good is having a military.
McChesney then mentioned that
American newspapers used to be
subsidized by the government. He
believes that a return to this government subsidy is the solution to
the billionaire-dominated media
today. He believes that an essay
from Milton Friedman could provide us the tools we need to enact
this subsidy.
Friedman essentially pushed for a
voucher system to fix public educa-

tion. McChesney said that although
he does not believe vouchers work
for public education, the same logic
could apply for the public good of
journalism.
“If you give 10,000 people in part
of a city which doesn’t get much
coverage 200 dollars, you get two
million dollars,” McChesney said.
“Two million dollars pays for a
decent newsroom; that’s 35-40
reporters. And there’s competition –
let’s say those people do a lousy job.
The next year, you can give your
money to someone else. There’s lot
of competition, no one’s locked in,
and you’ve got to earn your stripes.
That’s the way to go.”
McChesney provided insightful
commentary on journalism by raising awareness regarding the problems of the field. Nathan Manning
’14 had his eyes opened to a new
perspective on journalism in a democratic society.
“I liked the foresight of it,”
Manning said. “I think the evidence
he used certainly pointed out that
the situation with journalism is
untenable, and that something has
to change. It’s just a question of
what that change will be, and when
it will happen.”

Lights by playwright Jack Moore.
Visiting Professor of Theater Jesse
Mills directs the silent play inspired
by the classic film work of Charlie
Chaplin. Stage Lights captures modern audiences with its comedic charm
and romantic recreation of Chaplin’s
iconic universe.
“It has been really great to watch
this world come to life in a different
way,” Mills said. “Stage Lights comes
from an amalgamation of Charlie
Chaplin films.”
Patrick Kvachkoff ’15 leads the play
as the Tramp, Chaplin’s iconic figure.
The bittersweet comedy entertains the
enduring spirit of
the Tramp as he
adventures about
the Vaudeville
Theater searching for a job and
the possibility of
romance with the
beautiful Gamine.
As the Tramp
aspires for her,
Patrick Kvachkoff ‘15
Max, played by
A.J. Akinribade
’15 arrives and threatens to woo her
heart away and steal the Tramp’s
employment at Vaudeville Theater.
Withstanding defeat, triumph, heartbreak and love, the Tramp’s unwavering hopefulness and hysterical per-

sonality amuse the audiences’ funny
bones and heartstrings.
This is the first production Mills has
directed at Wabash. “It’s incredible
to watch these students hunker down
and work on a creative process that is
distinct from everything else they do
during the day,” Mills said.
Time management is a routine challenge for theater students. However,
adapting the film properly to a stage
setting is a new challenge.
“How to bring the movie onto stage
is a really big challenge for us,” stagehand Vaudeville act Xinyang (Shane)
Xuan ’17 said.
Transitioning from film to stage
is not the only new challenge. Since
the play is silent, the actors must
substitute their words with specific
actions and emotions that pieced
together specify a
larger narrative.
As each actor is
introduced, his or
her character must
establish identity through specific moments of
engagement with
characters, set- David Gunderman ‘15
ting or audience.
In theater these critical introductions
are referred to as establishing shots or
moments.
“Piecing all of these establishing

PHOTO BY - SHANE XAUAN ‘17

The cast and crew prepare for their Wednesday debut. The play mixes of a number of Charlie Chaplin films and will be directed by Visiting Professor of Theater Jesse Mills.
moments together so that it creates
something bigger has been really challenging,” Mills said.
Offstage management and performance is a factor just as challenging
to a play’s success as on stage performance. Stage Lights is set to live
music by David Gunderman ‘15 on
piano and Tim Hanson ‘17 on violin.
Bradley Hopper ’14 is Stage Manager.
Assistant Professor of Theater James
Gross is Scenic Designer/Technical
Director. Andrea Bear is Costume
Designer.

Stage Lights run at 8:00PM,
Wednesday through Friday, April 23rd
– 26th in Experimental Theater or Ball
Theater, Fine Arts Center. Tickets are
free and available by email request
to boxoffice@wabash.edu, by phone
765.361.6411, in person at the box
office (8:30 AM – 12:00 PM, 1:30 PM –
4:00 PM Monday through Friday), and
during 90 minutes before curtain time.
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GETTING INVOLVED, AVOIDING STRESS
W

hether you are a freshman
or a senior or somewhere
in between, this is a busy
time in your life for one reason or
another. Freshmen are getting the
chance to step into more concrete
roles on campus as rising sophomores soon, sophomores and juniors
are in the middle of the rigors of
Wabash, and seniors are looking for
jobs, housing, and stable futures.
No matter which of these groups
you find yourself in, it is important
to pick and choose what you do
along the way. Wabash is a stressful and busy place. Every student
here has experienced how stressful
the course load alone can be. Add in
playing a varsity sport, involvement
in a club or two, performing in a
play, working ESH, or simply trying
to relax, and there is hardly time to
sleep.
The real world of working, paying
bills, and fending for oneself may

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seem like a golden life of ease for
now, but it too has its challenges.
Self-help experts will always stress
the importance of time management
in these busy spheres. This is a good
point, but how do you start practicing good time management?
One way is to pick and choose
what you do before you become too
bogged down to want to get out of
bed. In short, pick and choose your
battles.

At Wabash, there are countless extra-curricular activities for
students to involve themselves in.
These are all great experiences and
opportunities. The saddest part is
that we cannot experience each and
every one of them. In fact, we cannot
even come close to that.
Performing in a play, taking on a
leadership position (or two) in clubs,
playing a sport, and being involved
in your living unit are all amazing
opportunities which offer different memories and growth. In order
to find the highest level of success,
be involved, but do not overstretch
yourself.
For many, staying busy leads to
the best success both in and out of
the classroom. Do not simply take
classes and be a couch potato. That
is a negative choice and neglects
many opportunities Wabash affords
us.
However, there is an equally bad

extreme, and that is trying to be
involved with too many organizations. You can only dedicate so
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WHAT TO DO WITH FAILING SCHOOLS?

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s we come to the end of
our discussion series curriculum, it is appropriate for
us to touch on the topic of failing
schools and what to do with them.
For as long as education has been
around, there have been efforts to
turn around schools that are struggling. The reality though, is that turnaround efforts rarely fix the problems
inherent in low-performing schools,
because turn-around strategies
are not scalable in troubled, urban
school systems.
With increased standardized testing and accountability has come the
ability to more accurately identify
which schools are doing the best, and
which are doing the worst. Even still,
when a school is continually showing
poor academic achievement gains
for students, there is a lot of debate
about what should be done to fix the
problem. Should we replace all of the
staff, replace the school with a charter school or break the old school
down into several smaller academies,
just shut down the school permanently, or should we focus on intensively training the staff already in
place? Unfortunately, the answer to

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this question isn’t as simple as saying one of the options is the best, and
the necessary solution varies greatly
depending on the area.
Low-performing schools, both
charter and traditional schools alike,
are stubbornly resistant to significant
changes, for all the reasons we have
talked to leading up to today’s discussion—reasons primarily revolving
around money in the status quo. A
review of 10 states found that the vast
majority of low-performing schools
remain open and low performing, even after turn-around efforts.
Five years after these efforts, 72%
of low-performing charter schools
still remained in operation—and
remained low performing—as did
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80% of district schools. It is unclear
if this is because of resistance from
administrators and communities in
the district to the efforts or because
of the turn-around strategies themselves, but regardless, turn-around
efforts simply are not grossly effective. The few schools that are able to
turn around are often only able to do
so with extremely large amounts of
supplemental dollars from philanthropic donors, so reliance on private
donations makes the successful turnarounds hard to imitate.
We need to make it tougher for
bad schools to continue and the only
aggregate solution to low-performing
schools is to close the ones with a
track record of failure as fast as we
can. For those that are reluctant to
this approach, it’s important to keep
in mind that schools aren’t classified as low-performing until they’ve
failed their students continually for
five to six years and that closing a
low-performing school doesn’t indict
public education or suggest a lack of
commitment to disadvantaged communities, as much as a failed business doesn’t indict capitalism and an
unseated incumbent doesn’t indict
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democracy. On the contrary, closing L
bad schools reflects our insistence
that we need to do what it takes to
work for the boys and girls most in
need. Though temporarily painful,
closure of bad schools is essential
for maintaining long-term systemic
quality, responsiveness, and innovation.
The beginning of the solution is
establishing a clear process for closing schools. The simplest and best
way to put this into operation is the
charter model. This is not to say
that every failing school should be
taken over by a charter network, but
instead that charter and traditional
schools alike should be given enough
autonomy to operate and test new
ways of doing things that might
prove to create a positive classroom
environment. Under this model, each
school, in conjunction with the state
or district, would be free to develop
their own five-year contract with
performance measures and consistent failure to meet goals in key areas
would result in closure. This would

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OPINION

A DISTINCTION TO
BE MADE: THE ARTIST
VS. THE ENTERTAINER
W

e all know and love
Beyoncé. Her lyricism,
charm, and staggering
beauty enrapture us every time.
We fall in love with her each time
we see her – but is this enough?
What does she do – really? Has she
changed the grand narrative, shaken
up social structures through her
lyrics, or even turned heads by turning off the powerful fans that keep
her thousand dollar weave flowing
freely behind her? Maybe not – but
in all fairness, we haven’t had an
artist do that in quite some time,
and maybe its unfair to even expect
her too.
But the distinction I’d like to
make here is one of the artist vs
the entertainer. Musicians like Katy
Perry, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Usher,
Justin Timberlake, the Biebs, and
even bands like One Direction
entertain. I feel like a distinction
needs to be made between an entertainer and an artist – an entertainer
puts on a show; an artist puts out a
message.
For instance, Lorde, Ellie
Goulding, Bon Iver, Mumford and
Sons, and Jack White put out music
that is driven by purpose. Take
Lorde’s song Royals for example.

Ian
Artis ‘16

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At first, it sounds like a catchy little
tune from a soulful voice. But this
smart teen from Auckland, New
Zealand has quite a bit of density to her lyrics. “I’ve never seen
a diamond in the flesh” and “no
post code envy” are just two minor
examples of her lyrics that you can
unpack – never being rich enough to
see fine jewelry, or living in an area
that’s not every desired.
Most musicians today are too
obvious with their meanings and
themes. While Katy and Yoncé do
have some depth to their work, like
Dark Horse, which is cryptic, to say
the least, they perform and entertain, putting on big showy concerts,
while Ellie and Lorde let their music
speak for them with unremarkable
venues.

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also help to mitigate against the
ambiguous and often-troublesome
standards set by NCLB.
This charter model—again, not a
model advocating for charter schools
as the only option in public education—would free children from subjection to schools with long track
records of failure and high probabilities of continued failure; this model
would generate faster improvement
by the few low-performing schools
that actually are capable of turning
around, for fear of closure, considering failure in public education has
had few real consequences for adults
over the years; and lastly, this model
would make room for replacements
that can have a transformative, positive impact on the health of education. When a firm folds due to poor
performance, the slack is taken up by
the expansion of successful existing
firms—meaning that those excelling
have the opportunity to do more—or
by new firms. New entrants not only
fill gaps, they have a tendency to better reflect current market conditions
and if/when certain new entrants too
fail to meet expectations, they also
should be removed. In any industry,
churn generates new ideas, ensures
responsiveness, facilitates needed
change, and empowers the best to do
more.
The formula for successful school
districts is simple: close failing
schools, open new schools, replicate
great schools, repeat.
America’s most-famous superior
urban schools are new starts—charter and public alike—not schools that
were previously underperforming.
When asking those who run high-

performing, high-poverty schools
why they start fresh, the response is
that changing the culture of existing
schools to facilitate learning is difficult to impossible. These administrators likened turn-around efforts
to that of putting old wine into new
bottles. Often, the necessary change
requires taking radical steps by
changing the practices of adults and
without starting over, this change is
impossible with the pressures from
unions and other community groups
who trust their public schools, even
when they shouldn’t be trusted.
When categorizing a school as failing, we run into the same arguments
we’ve come across many times when
talking about standardized testing,
performance-based evaluations,
and the like—that our assessments
are not accurate, that the problems are due to more than just bad
schools, and that expectations for
urban schools are simply unrealistic.
Admittedly, how schools get rated as
low-performing does not always truly
reflect low-performance and changes
need to be made to procedures that
determine the effectiveness of a
school. Similarly, the government
needs to set clearer guidelines that
school districts can follow to be successful. None of this changes the
fact though that many of the schools
in our poorest areas are simply
not good schools, whether they’ve
been classified properly or not, and
that these schools need to be held
accountable.
Today’s fixation with turn-around
efforts is misguided. Turn-arounds
have consistently shown themselves
to be ineffective and our relentless
preoccupation with improving the
worst schools actually inhibits the
development of a healthy, urban
public-education industry.

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THE RADIO,
THE TV, THE MOVIES
FARGO
FX NETWORK
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Based on the Coen brothers’
1996 film of the same name,
Fargo takes place in small
town in rural Minnasota. Billy
Bob Thorton plays a dark killer who comes to
town pulling the “Minnesota nice” atmosphere
into a savage abyss.
Dark Comedy/Drama. Fargo airs Tuesdays at
10 p.m.

PLAYERS FIRST
COACHING
FROM THE INSIDE
OUT
e
John Calipari’s latest book
details his desire to win, but more importantly
his desire to prepare his players for adulthood.
As the men’s head basketball coach for the
University of Kentucky , Calipari has dealt with
all kinds of attitudes and manners of play. He
This novel outlines his coaching strategy that
has led to years of coaching success. Available
as an e-book or in print through all major retailers.

‘14 came to Wabash in the fall of
2010. He arrived wanting to study
psychology and English literature.
Everything was going according to
plan.
Ward’s junior year brought a
change. He decided to switch his
major to English literature and minor
to psychology.
“I understood I would have to go
an additional semester if I switched
majors,” Ward said. “I just became
more interested in literature than
psychology. I felt I could perform
better in the classroom, on my
Senior Comps, and just be happier.”
Ward would need to go an additional semester to effectively study
the same material, but switch his
major area of study to his pervious
minor area of study – literature for
psychology and psychology for literature.
Ward is not the only student facing the dilemma. Andrew Schmutte
’14 will return to Wabash for a fifth
year. Unlike Ward, Schmutte did not
change his major. Schmutte transferred to Indiana University after
only a semester at Wabash. Schmutte
completed his second semester at
IU, decided he did not like it, and
came back to Wabash his sophomore
year, permanently.
Schmutte and Ward both have different reasons for returning for a fifth
year. Both are common reasons.
Dean of Students Michael Raters

Michaelson released her sixth
studio album, Lights Out,
Tuesday, April 15. Like other
Michaelson albums, Lights Out falls in the
Indie-Pop genre and is heavily love based thematically. Michaelson’s latest album is her most
mature. Her voice still shines in front of choral
arrangements, but she utilizes deeper background music and darker tones in this album.
The result is haunting; gone are the saccharine
tracks of old, Michaelson delves into the heartbreak and tragic aspects of love and her voice-sometimes breaking reflects that journey.

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Drew Schmutte ‘14 studies in his dorm room. Schmutte will complete a ninth semester after
attending IU during the spring semester of 2011.

’85 said most students who return
for the extra year do so because
“they are injured (or ill) and must
take a semester or more off from
school, are student-athletes who lose
a year of athletic eligibility and will
intentionally take fewer classes so
they can return for their fourth year
of eligibility, and that some students
even face academic difficulties forcing them to return for a fifth year.”
Raters plays a role in the students’
decision for taking the five-year path.
“My job is to council the student
and see how [Wabash] can get them
from point A to point B,” Raters said.
“I do not like to interfere with the
student’s decisions to return for a
fifth year. Wabash transforms boys
to men, and part of that step is making responsible decisions, such as
returning for a fifth year if that is
what is best or what the student truly
wants.”
Raters said the goal is always to
graduate the student in four years.
Most students have no trouble with
that. Raters stressed that in his meetings with students, he presents them
the “reality vs. cost” factor. ‘Will

returning for a fifth year to continue
my athletic career or change a major
be worth the time and the financial
cost to me?’
Students are faced with a variety
of issues causing them to return for
a fifth year, ranging from academic
struggles to sports. No matter the
reason, if the students are committed, Raters said they have his staff’s
full support. Raters stated certain
faculty members do not like students
cutting academics for athletics.
“They say things such as ‘this isn’t
a Division 1 athletic powerhouse’,
and that they think the school should
intervene and prevent such things
from happening,” Raters said. “These
are young men at this institution,
and we encourage them to make
their own responsible decisions.
Who am I to say they can’t return for
a fifth year if they desire to?”
Many state universities are cycling
more and more students through a
five-year program to obtain a BA.
“We plug them into the process to
graduate in four years; it has always
been our goal,” Raters said.

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Last weekend, Wabash fraternity men played in a volleyball tournament co-hosted by Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Psi to raise money for the Thirst Project, a charitable organization that
provides access to potable water for communities without. The tournament raised near $1500.

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IT’S WARM!

SIX THINGS TO DO OUTDOORS

S C O TT M ORR ISO N ‘14 |
EDIT O R-I N -C H IEF • Spring seems

to be here despite the freezing temperatures early this week. As a result,
we decided to compile a list of warm
weather activities that every Wabash
student should do before graduating.
Yes, Crawfordsville isn’t a mecca for
awesome activities. We know that, but
take advantage of what we have in our
area and throughout central Indiana.
It is not a complete loss and in many
ways, your down time at Wabash is
what you make of it.
1. Spend a day hiking or canoeing
through Shades State Park.
Montgomery County does offer the
beauty of a state park just 17 miles
southwest of Crawfordsville. In the
winter months, Shades is only open
from 8 am till dusk, but now that the
weather is breaking, it is open for day
and dusk activities. Totaling more
than 3,000 acres and home to 11 trails,
Shades might be the best kept secret

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the region has to offer for nature
lovers. Get away from Wabash for a
Saturday afternoon and see wildlife
and connect with nature in Shades. It
might help you recharge your batteries. It’s also not a bad place to spend
some time with that special someone
in your life.
2. Get out on the mall and use it!

Croquet seems to be all the rage
among some frat stars on campus
these days. Fend off the croquet
champs or ultimate Frisbee fanatics
for a game of your own, or better yet,
join in their games of merriment. The
upcoming weather is just too good to
be sitting in front of NHL 14 ox Xbox
all day.
3. Canoe or fish Sugar Creek.
Mentioned along with Shades,
Sugar Creek is a great resource in
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Creek can also offer a fun or peaceful
weekend afternoon. Plan a fraternity
canoe event or simply grab a group of
friends.
4. Walk dogs at the Animal Welfare
League.

Located on Big 4 Arch Road near
campus and RR Donnelley, the Animal
Welfare League is a shelter for cats
and dogs without another home. Open
Monday through Friday from 12:15
p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30
a.m. to 3 p.m., the animal shelter is a
great place to go on a nice day to walk
a dog or two. The dogs there rely on
the exercise and human interaction
they receive with volunteers, and you
will get to enjoy the company of an
animal who is truly grateful for you.
5. See an Indy Eleven or Indianapolis
Indians game.
Everyone and their brother has a car
on campus just about and the state

capital is only 45 minutes away. There
are countless things to do in Indy, but
for an outdoor experience with a local
twist, go see an Indy Eleven soccer
game at IUPUI’s stadium downtown.
The Eleven are a new minor league
soccer team in Indianapolis, and their
name comes from Lew Wallace’s 11th
Infantry in the Civil War. I know, I
know, soccer isn’t an American sport.
Tell that to the 11,000-plus fans who
attended their opening game last
week. Not too shabby eh old sport?
6. Hit the links in Crawfordsville.
Fresh off of Bubba Watson’s win
at the Master’s, many of us have the
golf juices running through our veins.
We can’t get on Augusta, but we can
hit up the local Municipal course
and hack it around with a cold one
or two (those of us 21 or older). The
Municipal is not a bad track, and it is
extremely affordable for college students. So grab some clubs and play a
round.

NOW ON NETFLIX:
THREE MUST WATCH PROGRAMS

MI K E W I T CZA K ’14 | STAFF
WRITER • For a kid born in the ‘90s,

nothing passes the time like something solid to watch on Netflix.
Sometimes, however, our love affair
with Netflix is a curse. When there is
nothing new to watch, the walls start
to cave in and it’s easy to consider
taking drastic measures, like reading
for pleasure or going outside. Well,
this week we thought we’d help out by
giving you a few suggestions. Whether
you’re in the mood to watch a classic, something a tad more obscure, or
to laugh for about an hour straight,
we’ve got you covered.
Chinatown (1974) – This movie
is a must see for any film noir
fans. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye
Dunaway and directed by Roman
Polanski, Chinatown ranks up there
with classics such as The Big Sleep
and The Maltese Falcon.
Chinatown is a fresh look at a
classic plot. Set in Los Angeles, we
follow private detective J.J. Gittes
(Jack Nicholson) as he unravels an
adultery case that proves to be much
more complex than it first appeared.

Relying on his supreme sleuth skills
and plenty of grit, Gittes eventually
gets to the bottom of a massive scandal, but not without serious consequences.
Death Race 2000 (1975)- Are you
in a cult classic sort of mood? Good,
because this movie won’t leave you
disappointed. With everything from
a ridiculous plot to just the right
amount of parody and clichés, Death
Race is the type of “bad” movie you
can’t stop watching.
Set in the distant year 2000, Death
Race follows a cross-country automobile race in which the drivers try
to kill pedestrians to gain points.
In a game where killing equals winning, there is plenty of opportunity
for drama and deceit as the defending champion Frankenstein battles
with perpetual second place winner
Machine Gun Joe (a young Sylvester
Stallone). Be prepared to gain a new
understanding of the term “entertainment for the masses.”
New in Town (2012)- Stand-up
comedian John Mulaney shows that
he is one of the best in the game with

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A poster for the movie Chinatown, the poster highlights the “film noir” aspect of the movie.
this hour long special. He is the kind
of comedian that’s hard to put your
finger on: he’s like a goofier, more
self-deprecating Seinfeld. His short
bits and witty humor are complimented nicely by his well-timed and

often silly delivery. Long story short,
John Mulaney is absolutely hilarious
and will brighten up a boring Wabash
afternoon.

WABASH SPLITS WITH
DEPAUW, REMAINS IN
NCAC WEST DIVISION RACE
JOCELYN HOPKIN1ON ‘15 | SPORTS
EDITOR • A walk-off home run in one

game, a go-ahead home run on the final
out in another, and an ejection — the
Sunday double header between Wabash
and DePauw had it all.
The rivals followed Saturday’s pattern
with another split. DePauw (10-11, 6-4
NCAC West) won game three of the fourgame series 14-11 after Connor Einertson
drove a three-run shot over the right field
wall in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Wabash (15-10, 6-2 NCAC West) fought
for a 5-4, come-from-behind victory in
game four. The Little Giants trailed 3-2
and were down to their final out with two
runners on base when Tyler Owensby
stepped to the plate for his fourth at bat.
Owensby lifted a 2-1 breaking ball to
deep left and the crowd of 150 or so held
its breath until the ball smacked off the
scoreboard beyond the fence.
“The whole game, I was seeing nothing
but curveballs; I think I saw one fastball
all day,” Owensby said. “I knew it was
coming, saw it, and put a good swing on
it. They hit a home run to win in the first
game, but luck came our way in the second.”
The small ball Wabash used to place
base runners was just as important.
“That was a huge at bat for Owensby,
but everything leading up to that was
big,” Coach Cory Stevens said. “Steven
Curry had a great leadoff at bat, we got
the bunt down to move him over, and
Trey Fankhauser had a good at bat in
there as well.”
Owensby, dubbed “Mr. Clutch” this
week by coaches and teammates, tied
game three after a two-run single with
Wabash on its final out. He had a monster
Sunday, batting 3-of-9 with six RBI and
three runs. His weekend culminated with
North Coast Athletic Conference Player of
the Week honors.
The Little Giants needed a reason
to cheer after a frustrating game three.
Wabash held a 9-7 lead in the bottom of
the sixth and had DePauw on the ropes
with two outs. However, the Tigers loaded
the bases and forced closer Christian
Vukas ‘16 to enter into a sticky situation.
Ryan Grippo worked Vukas to a full count
when the righty painted the outside of
the plate, but the umpire called a ball.
DePauw tallied three more runs in the
inning after the bases-loaded walk to take
an 11-9 lead.
To make matters worse, Wabash
received little help in its comeback
attempt. With runners on second and
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enth, Lucas Stippler ‘15 struck out looking
on a pitch that needed a seven iron to hit,
not a baseball bat. Stevens charged down
the line from the third-base box arguing
the bad call and was quickly tossed, exiting to a standing ovation from Wabash
fans.
“We had to go to our bullpen earlier
than we would have liked,” Stevens said
of game three. “I think Luke Holm ‘14
gave up eight free bases between walks
and hit batters, and that’s unusual for
him. Our guys still fought into extra
innings, and we were in a position to
win.”
Holm only lasted four innings after
allowing seven runs on seven hits. Vukas
was handed the loss.
Little Giant pitching turned around in
game four. Josh Piercey ‘16 spread out

Aaron Schuler ’17 powered Wabash
to its second consecutive Indiana
NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and
Field Championship held at DePauw
University April 12.
De St Jean and Schuler were named
the male athletes of the meet for field
and track respectively. De St Jean captured victories in hammer throw and
shot put while taking second in discus
at the meet. He threw a season best
53.71 meters (176 feet, 2 inches) in
the hammer, which was also good for
second best among all NCAC throwers
this season. De St Jean also captured
the meet record in shot with 16.09
meters, putting him tenth among all
DIII throwers this season.
Schuler’s strong performance
included individual wins in the 100and 200-meter dashes. He was also a
member of the 4x100-meter relay team
which also captured second.
A victory at DePauw against in-state
schools is always an accomplishment
for Wabash. The Little Giants cruised
to the title with 52 top-eight finishes.
5 “It was a great win for us,” Head Track
Coach Clyde Morgan said. “It was a big
deal; you always want to win a champi-

“You always
want to win a
championship like
that when it’s in
your back yard.”
COACH CLYDE MORGAN

onship like that when it’s in your back
yard – somebody in Indiana. Our guys
took pride in that, and we got after it.”
While the sun was shining on the
meet, weather was a factor with winds
gusting as high as 20 to 30 mph. Such
conditions created an atmosphere
that was dangerous for pole vaulters,
hurdlers, and any athletes who got
into the air. DePauw made sure to orient the events so athletes were as safe
as possible. “We are all about getting
through adversity, and we were faced
with adversity not from ourselves or
from other teams, but from the weather and the wind,” Morgan said. “It was
a beautiful day, but I have been around
track and field since I was 12, and I

TENNIS TAKES SECOND
AT HOME CHALLENGE
LITTLE GIANTS FALL IN
ANOTHER TIGHT MATCH,
THIS TIME IN FINALS
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The Wabash Tennis team knocked
of two MIAA schools before falling to
a third in last weekend’s NCAC-MIAA
Challenge.
Michael Makio ’17 had a great
weekend that earned him NCAC
Men’s Tennis Player of the Week honors. Makio went undefeated in the
Challenge of Friday and Saturday by
capturing victories both in the three
singles spot and one doubles with
partner Wade Miller ’14. “We played
three schools from the MIAA conference (Hope, Calvin, and Alma),”
Makio said. “We started out blazing
on Friday waxing Calvin and Alma,
which put us in the finals of the
NCAC-MIAA challenge. Going into
the match, we knew that Hope was
going to be the toughest match of the
weekend.”
The team was in trouble following

have never seen wind like that before.”
The Little Giants made it through
the meet without any injuries and are
now looking to peak at just the right
time as they head toward conference
and nationals. “We got a handful of
guys we are trying to peak for conference and then nationals,” Morgan
said. “The training is planned weeks
in advance, and if you have a surprise
athlete who has hit those standards
the you have to readjust their training.
That’s an exciting part about track and
field; that’s what is really unique about
this sport. There are a lot of coaches
out there that just don’t get that part.
They have great athletes, and they
wonder why they can’t get things out
of them. You have to understand as
far as track and field that athletes are
individuals.”
De St Jean is one of many on the
team who has had the opportunity to
compete in some high-level DI meets
this season. While those were great
opportunities, he and others are keeping their eyes on end of season goals.
“Coach Morgan’s training program is
all about peaking at the right time,” De
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“We started out
blazing on Friday
waxing Calvin and
Alma . . . We knew
that Hope was
going to be the
toughest match of
the weekend”
MICHAEL MAKIO ‘17
the doubles matchups; Makio and
Mark Troiano ’15 won two and three
singles, but five and six singles fell to
Hope. “We went down 2-1 after the
doubles and knew we had to fight
for the singles points,” Makio said.
“Mark and I won our singles pretty
quickly at number 2 and 3 singles put-

PHOTO BY COREY EGLER ‘15

Nathan Mueller ‘15 took seventh place in
the long jump at the Indiana DIII Championships and took fouth place in the hurdles.

PHOTO BY COREY EGLER ‘15

Michael Makio ‘17 earned conference Player of the Week honors this week.
ting us up 3-2. Then it came down to
the wire, both the 1 and 4 singles had
extremely close matches, which were
both three sets. In the end we put up
at strong fight after being down after
the doubles, but we ended up losing
6-3 to Hope.”
The team travels to Denison on

Friday. “I am very excited about the
last match because it is a conference
match and they (Big Red) are at the
top of the conference right now,”
Makio said. “It was nice to win the
award, and I want to thank the team
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GOLF LOOKS FOR TWO-DAY SUCCESS
“I’m not sure
why we’re not
playing well on the
second day.”

DEREK ANDRE ‘16 | STAFF WRITER

After a string of lackluster Sundays,
the Little Giant golf team is traveling to
Wooster, OH this weekend to compete
in the Wooster Invitational in hopes of
righting the ship heading into the conference tournament.
Over the past few weekends Wabash
has played well on Saturday but the
golfers have failed to convert in their
Sunday rounds. At the Rose-Hulman
Invitational the Little Giants were second going into the final day but turned
in a Sunday score of 326 to slip all the
way to fifth. The story was similar at
the Hanover Invitational two weekends
ago where Wabash sat in third after a
Saturday team score of 306. At the end
of Sunday the Little Giants turned in
314 on a day that saw scores go down
for most teams in the tournament.
Unlike with other sports, the answers
for poor play aren’t usually obvious in
golf, a reality backed up by comments
made by Head Coach Mac Petty.
“I’m not sure why we’re not shooting as well on the second day,” Petty
said. “After you get done with an eighteen hole round you think you’d like
to go play that course again because
now you know about the course. And
that’s what you get to do when you

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play two eighteen-hole rounds. The
other schools seem to stay where they
are or improve and we’re not doing
that. Sometimes I think our guys are
perfectionists.”
One highlight of the season has been
the strong individual performances
by several members of the golf team.
Seth Hensley ’14 has had a fourthplace finish and a sixth-place finish
in tournaments this spring. Logan
Burdick ’15 finished fourth place as an
individual in the Hanover Invitational.
Heading into next weekend’s NCAC
Tournament the Little Giants will need
performances like these to contend for
the team title.
This weekend’s Wooster Invitational
will serve as a good warm up for
the first two rounds of the NCAC

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Tournament. With next weekend’s
rounds being played at Twin Bridges
Golf Club in Danville, IN, the Wooster
Country Club will serve as a good
test for the Little Giant golfers. Both
courses have a similar slope rating and
while Twin Bridges is the longer of the
two courses it plays down hill on many
holes so both courses play to a similar
length. Another benefit of playing in
the Wooster Invitational this weekend
is the ability for the Little Giants to see
several of the NCAC teams the week
before the conference tournament.
While the field is not as large as in
previous years, Coach Petty said the
Wooster Invitational is still a good test
for the team.
“When I scheduled it I was hoping there would be more conference
schools in the tournament,” Petty said.
“We didn’t play last weekend because
I wanted to have us playing a weekend
before the conference championships
start. So I wanted to have the opportunity to play against some of the
conference schools and see where we
stand against them. Well, we get the
tee times and there are only four of us
conference schools there. But it’s still
a great tournament and a great course
to play on.”

PHOTO BY COREY EGLER ‘15

Hensley has notched fourth and sixth-place
finishes at tournaments in the spring.
The Wooster Invitational begins this
Friday at Wooster Country Club and
will continue on into Saturday.

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St Jean said. “With Coach Selby creating a new weight-training program
just for throwers, the T-Unit (throwing
unit) will be peaking very soon. With
conference in three weeks, the time
to peak will be the Bellarmine meet or
during the training week of conference.
For some track guys who are nationally ranked, their time to peak will be
different. A handful of guys will be
peaking after conference, just before
nationals mid-May. I hope to be a part
of that group.”
Wabash will travel down to RoseHulman to compete tonight at 6 p.m.
and then tomorrow at Ohio State
University, which was a late addition
to the schedule after Purdue cancelled
its invitational. These meets as well
as those the following week will be a
time for the Little Giants to tone things
down in preparation for a final stretch
run. “We are just coming off of a big
meet so we are trying to take some
off of our guys going this weekend to
either one – one or two events to get
their legs back,” Morgan said. “We will
try to reach conference standards, and
do it again the next weekend backing
off a little bit, and then we are into
conference. It’s a tricky time for us, but
we have been doing it for a while so
we are up for managing these guys and
being successful.”

for pushing me every day at practice
and matches and Coach Hutchison
for everything he has done for me this
season.”
Nick Minaudo ’16 echoed Makio’s
excitement and focus on the two
matches this week. “This match is
especially tough for us as Denison is
extremely difficult,” Minaudo said.
“Despite trying to focus on the match
this week, we are also preparing for
the Conference tournament, which is
the following week.”
The team has seen a lot of growth
throughout the year as many young
teams do. “This year has been quite
an eventful turn of events for the tennis team,” Minaudo said. “Although
we have had a slow start, trying to
acclimate to a team made up of purely
freshman, the team has fought back
surprising certain established tennis
programs.”
Heading into the final stretch of the
season, the team remains optimistic
of its prospects in the NCAC conference tournament. “Although we have
had a tough season we look forward to
surprising a few of the teams this year
in the tournament,” Minaudo said.
The match against Denison will
start at 5 p.m. Friday.

eight hits for four runs in the complete
game. He also struck out five DePauw
batters.
“Piercey put us in position to win and
we were going to stick with him,” Stevens
said. “He was throwing strikes and we
were confident in the defense behind
him.”
Injuries added to the pile of obstacles
Wabash had to fight through over the
weekend. David Oliger ‘16 and Andrew
Rodgers ‘15 were both nicked up after
Saturday. Curry, Justin Green ‘16, and
Tanner Watson ‘14 all saw new roles in
the lineup.
“It was the first time all year Curry
had been at first base,” Stevens said. “He
stepped in and did a great job. Justin
Green came into catch midway through
game one and had some great at-bats.”
Curry batted 3-for-8 with two runs and
one black eye he received while taking
warmups. Green was a perfect 4-of-4 and
Watson hit 3-of-6 with two runs and three
RBI from the two hole, which is usually
held by Oliger.
Pitching and missed opportunities
highlighted the 2-1 loss in game one for
Wabash. JT Miller took the loss despite
throwing a complete game, allowing
one earned run, and scattering eight
hits. DePauw’s starting pitcher Jack Peck
countered with five innings pitched, four
hits, and one earned one.
Little Giant pitching continued its

“Our guys fought
into extra innings
and we were in
position to win.”
COACH CORY STEVENS
Saturday roll behind Ross Hendrickson
‘14. Hendrickson threw a complete, nineinning game and only allowed two earned
runs on seven hits while striking out five.
Oliger led the way for the Little Giant
offense Saturday going 5-of-8 with two
runs. Scarborough closely followed going
4-for-6 with 3 RBI and a walk Saturday.
After the series split, Wabash fell
to second in the North Coast Athletic
Conference West division behind 8-2
Denison.
“Our goal is to be in first place on our
side of the conference,” Stevens said.
“You want to be in a position to host for
that crossover series, so the one and two
seeds are huge. It’s going to be a very
important weekend coming up.”
The highly important four-game
set against Denison will be Friday and
Saturday due to the Easter holiday
Sunday. Each double header is set to start
at 12 p.m. from Goodrich Ballpark.

When the Little Giant baseball
team hosts Denison this weekend, the
regular season NCAC West Division
championship will be on the line. The
importance of this series cannot be
underplayed as it brings the top two
divisional teams face-to-face.
After last weekend’s split series in
Greencastle, the Little Giants currently
are second place in the west two wins
back of Denison and two losses ahead
of DePauw. The Big Red and Tigers
will make up two games Wednesday in
Granville, OH.
Not only does this weekend’s series
against Denison have championship
implications, but postseason positioning will also be determined.
“It’s a big series,” Head Baseball
Coach Cory Stevens said. “As we’ve
said, we want to be in one of those top
two spots so that we’re hosting for the
crossover series. So it’s very important
that we win.”
Both teams come into the series
having won seven of their last ten and
playing very good baseball. J.T. Miller
’14 is excited about facing a wellcoached Denison team. “Denison is
a great team that’s always good and
always competitive.
“We’re a little disappointed with the
split against DePauw, but we’ll take it.
Now it’s time to bounce back and get
after Denison which will be a really
good test for our team.”

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“We’re pitching,
playing defense,
getting timely hits,
and picking each
other up. I think
the sky is the limit.”
JT MILLER ‘14

Coach Stevens admits that Denison
is a sound baseball team, but it’s one
that the team can beat.
“They’re a well-coached team,”
he said. “They do the small things
extremely well. They’re very fundamental – they bunt well, they hit and
run. Their pitchers our going to challenge our hitters. But I don’t think
we’ll change our approach from what
it’s been all season. We’ll go out, play
our game, and see what happens.”
The brand of baseball the Little
Giants have been playing has served
them well recently. A combination of
solid offense, excellent pitching, and
efficient fielding has paved the way for
success.
“We’re playing great baseball,”
Miller said. “We’re pitching, playing
defense, getting timely hits, and picking each other up. So I think the sky is
the limit for us.”
Defeating east division leader
Wooster two weekends ago certainly
shows the potential the Little Giants

PHOTO BY COREY EGLER ‘15

KJ Zelenika ‘16 blasted his first career home run Saturday at DePauw over the left-field
fence. Wabash will need his bat and stellar defense at the hot corner against Denison.
possess. The not-so-distant crossover
series and conference tournament are
looking to be anyone’s for the taking, a
fact which the team is looking to take
advantage.
“I think we’re in a good position
right now,” Coach Stevens said. “We
still control our own destiny. That’s
what we’ve said from day one of
conference play: we want to be in a
position to control our own destiny
throughout the conference schedule.
We want to know where we stand all
the way through.
“We’re in a very good position with

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the series this weekend to prove ourselves as one of the top teams in the
conference regardless of east or west.
We played the best on the east side
of the conference and took two out of
three from them. So we feel like the
battle for the top will be this weekend.”
First pitch for Saturday’s doubleheader is noon at Goodrich Ballpark
before the second game at 3 p.m. The
series concludes Sunday with another
double-header with games again starting at noon and 3 p.m.